It’s on again for another year.
For anyone who wants to join, I’ve started a mini league -
https://www.pinkbike.com/contest/fantasy/dh/?joinleagueid=19885
Password to join is “502”. Seemed appropriate.
Joined (for first time ever). Cheers!
Half a dozen so far.
Any more fancy it?
Yup just joined the pink bicycle to do this. Will mull over my groundbreaking excellent squad over coffee in the morning once I’ve got to grips with how it works.
Joined. I've been watching DH since the 90's and watch almost every single race and I've never done any better than very badly. This might be my year.
I'm in, but I'll probably change my team many times before the deadline!
I'm in.
To save me looking at every team, has anyone NOT picked Amaury?
I've not picked him. But yes he's a very strange price.
I couldn't decide on Amaury - He was 6th in Thredbo a couple of weeks back against loads of locals, so he's definitely increasing the intensity again now. He didn't seem too happy with his form, but there are loads of WC riders behind him on that event.
Also Reece Wilson - I'll be keeping my eye on his next few weeks too.
Always done very badly on the dh but ended up 12th overall when they did the EWS a few years ago, mainly because I had Hattie Harnden from the 1st race. In fact if I hadn't swapped Jesse Melamed for Richie Rude in the final round (Innerleithen when he was disqualified) I would've been around 3rd or 4th. No doubt I'll be near the bottom on here tho
37 in now. I'm quite ready to come 37th.
I’m in with a Lions eligible team (for now). Bit silly really but expecting to do lots of transfers to Frenchies over the season.
“ 37 in now. I’m quite ready to come 37th”
ha well we’ll see about that. All my predictions for last season were spectacularly wrong so you might have a challenger for bottom place😀
Joined, I've done nothing more than look at the world champs last year...
In.
Prepared to be 51st now.
Any more?
I've just joined the league. Only a few days to go.
Screenshot showing the only time I'm likely to be ranked #1:
I listened to the PB pod yesterday/this morning and they mentioned that the value of the riders will be changing each race (which is fair enough and happens in most fantasy leagues) but when the value changes that is reflected in the team value.
Eg, Amaury wins at Fort Bill and his value increases by a couple of 100k, so now you are over budget and have to change the team before the next race.
Basically it's made me think it's not worth shoe horning him in. He hasn't raced a WC for a long while so no guarantees that he will be up to speed in the first race back (it was definitely worth having for the later rounds if you can bag him at 240k) I'm now thinking of using that budget on a top female rider as they'll more likely make finals and have a greater chance of both making the podium.
I'm in.
Won't lie, my predictions were based on who I enjoyed watching last year and have no bearing on actual chances of winning!
Listened to the PB podcast this morning and was inspired to spend all of 2 mins coming up with a team. So I'm in.
Is there any way to watch the action for free this year? Failing that what's the cheapest subscription option?
£6.99 a month is the only short term option I’ve seen - will sign up tomorrow….
Well done to Maxcommencemal with a decent score of 89.
I'm in 4th and it all looks pretty close from 2nd down. Straightaway it looks like I need to swap riders as the dynamic pricing has removed a rider already.
Should really be Maxcommencebien.
Pinkerton let the side down. I flipped a coin over whether to pick a first year elite or a local. Greg Williamson would have earned me triple figures.
Great idea thanks
Pinkerton let the side down. I flipped a coin over whether to pick a first year elite or a local. Greg Williamson would have earned me triple figures
Had Pinkerton so no points there, also had Williamson, Pierron and Tahnee. Luke Meier Smith's dsq and picking Louise Ferguuson instead of Mikayla Parton cost me a decent score but 66 not a bad start considering only 3 got any points
My idea for going all in on the Women almost worked, but I went for cheap Brits in the hope they’d be able to chip in some extra points with a bit of extra motivation with the home crowd behind them and Luke M-S as mid priced dark horse but none of the Brits got close to the final and L M-S got DSQ.
I’ve had to amend my team already though as Vali’s price is now up to 1,000,000!
Hats off to Yak, steaming into the lead after that round, Lachlan kinda seems like the obvious (cheap) choice after almost laying down a stormer in Poland. Doh, why didn’t I think of that.
Feeling quite good after Myriam N got me a good few points.
Thanks!... got to celebrate minor wins when they happen! Yeah Lachlan's speed was undervalued before by the pricing but it won't be now I expect.
I’ve had myriam since the start and she bagged some points today and hopefully it’ll continue until her stock rises. Amaury Pieron also in there as a “cheap” buy but aside from some self back patting for those two, I’m doing terrible.
Im thinking of getting Bruni and then five random £100K riders….
Whoop whoop! It's a fantasy league battle in our house. No-one else is in the dh league, but my daughter reckons she is beating me on percentage away from the top basis in the F1 fantasy league by comparison. Might have to up the stakes and bet some chocolate bars on this.
Is the scoring correct? I show as 349 but with rounds of 69, 55, 67.
I made the mistake of dropping Vali for this round but I may have to revert to that eggs in one basket strategy if I can afford to keep Myriam or Aumory in alongside her after recalibration.
Yeah Mark I was wondering about the scoring, totals don’t seem to match and everyone has jumped up loads of points..
Ah, the dodgy total scores have been corrected and I think we are all back where we should be. And not 2nd in the world.....
Theg have removed all the third round scores so yaks 121 has gone
I only got 37 so worked out for me
Ah well. There were some dodgy third round scores so was fair to remove them all. Mine was all legit... but gone now.
It seems a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but perhaps they were unable to identify which accounts had "cheated"?
There are still a few of us in the top 50 out of 20,000 globally - showing the world that STW isn't all bikepacking, beards and arguing about dogs 😀
Actually the adjustment has done me a massive favour, but it doesn't feel fair.
, but perhaps they were unable to identify which accounts had “cheated”?
Reading the PB comments, it seems some folk unwittingly 'cheated' as they were picking their teams for the next round... I've had a shocking rd1, decent rd2, meh rd3 and still unsure if losing that total is good or bad for me, but then a triple-figure score for rd4 so I'm still happy!
I think there's still adjustments going on as I was 5th in the STW league last night but 6th this morning?!
Reading the PB comments, it seems some folk unwittingly ‘cheated’ as they were picking their teams for the next round…
Ideally you'd invalidate any changes made between X and Y date and revert the scores to their previous line-up.
But PB haven't shared how many people are involved, I did ask Brian Park on their article about it.
I think there’s still adjustments going on as I was 5th in the STW league last night but 6th this morning?!
Or people still joining our league? I think I've dropped from 2nd to 3rd.
Or people still joining our league? I think I’ve dropped from 2nd to 3rd.
Ah, good point. Could be 'Andy01302' that's a STW league newbie if it's only them and Yak above you. Bumped me off the virtual podium!
Bumped me off the virtual podium!
Haha, I'm sure Yak will let you drink some of the champagne from his shoe.
does seem a little ott way of dealing with the error but there you go. Personally round 3 was the first one with a decent score for me, so I’ve dropped back a few places. Hey ho, had a decent round 4 though.
Finally got round to joining (I think I won the STW league last year). I had a decent round 3 so annoyed to miss out on the points, ironically my round 4 score was identical!
The 3rd round being annulled (39 pts) and my roster hitting triple digits for the first time at VdS has bumped me back up the rankings. I really should be several pages back in the general classification considering that mediocre selection for Leogang.
Could be ‘Andy01302’ that’s a STW league newbie
Hi, hello. Joined the league late this year. Didn't realise there was one on!
Anyone else finding they can't change their team for Les Gets? Had the email saying I'm over budget, they've replaced the most expensive rider (Amoury Pierron for Kade Edwards, who isn't actually racing any world cups this year) and when I try to change it I get the 'event is live, rosters locked' screen
Same. Gotta be a glitch.
I'm sure they'll sort it out 🤞
Came here to say the same thing. My team looks nothing like what I selected and it’s locked to edit
Changed mine, just put all French riders in.
Just changed mine, though got the same message and kade Edwards appeared in my team.
Weird how they changed the pricing now.
Did they not actually do it after the last race ?
Top tip - Matt Walker likely to find his form this round, as I’ve finally, reluctantly deselected him!
Prices hadn't changed until now.
Mine also added Kade - they need to change that to highest point scorer you can afford rather than a random injured rider if they persist with the current dynamic pricing model. I cleared my team and started again and it has worked.
Looks like they've discounted the top riders because they were previously $1,000,000. There's a few outliers around $250,000 region with zero points, I guess that's to make the 'value' picks look more appealing.
Yes, now you've said that I can see they've tweaked the prices of some of the top riders - too many had maxed out at $1m.
There's still a bit of a "hollowing out" effect in the midrange, but on balance I think it's better.
I kind of like that they've used Kade as the default replacement, it makes sure that we're still all paying attention!
As long as I have the budget to pick Momo and keep a fairly solid selection throughout, I'll be happy.
Blimey, I've gone top despite having Cami and BK on there! Shame there's no prizes.
I'm also top of the Ride Companion one - anyone know if there's anything up for grabs on that one?
A howler of a round for me. Loved the racing though!
I had an absolute shocker, 18 points!
Great race. Disaster for my team though
Slipped into the top 10, more by luck than judgement really, thanks to all the carnage, still got a reasonable 81 points
